José Fardilha - Don Magnifico
Born in Portugal, he won the "Toti dal Monte" Prize, that led him to make his
debut in Don Giovanni (Leporello) in Treviso, Rovigo, Strasbourg and
Trieste.
After that he began a career that brought him in the world's greatest opera
houses and festivals, including: Wiener Staatsoper; Salzburger Festspiele;
Barbican Center in London; Opéra de Paris; Staatsoper Unter den Linden in
Berlin; Bayerische Staatsoper in Munich; Zurich Opernhaus; Teatro alla Scala in
Milan; Teatro Regio in Turin; Opera in Rome; Teatro La Fenice in Venice; Teatro
del Maggio Musicale in Florence; Arena Sferisterio in Macerata; Martina Franca
Festival; Teatro São Carlos in Lisbon and New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.
Mr. Fardilha regularly collaborated with prestigious conductors, such Claudio
Abbado, Paolo Carignani, Riccardo Chailly, Zubin Mehta and Riccardo Muti and
with directors as Gianfranco De Bosio, Emilio Sagi, Giorgio Strehler. Mr.
Fardilha also enjoys a vast concert activity, interpreting for example:
Rossini's Petite Messe Solennelle conducted by Michel Corboz; Beethoven's
Symphony n. 9 with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Dimitri
Kitaenko; Stravinsky's Les Noces; Puccini's Messa di Gloria;
Orff's Carmina Burana; and Handel's Messiah.
After his recent successes in Don Pasquale at the Glyndebourne Festival
and as Fra’ Melitone in La Forza del Destino in Genève, his future plans
include: La damnation de Faust at the Philharmonie in Berlin under the
baton of Tugan Sokhiev; Il Barbiere di Siviglia at the Covent Garden in
London, at the Staatsoper in Berlin and Stuttgart; Don Giovanni in San
Sebastian and at the Budapest Festival Orchestra, then on tour at the Edinburgh
International Festival; revivals of La Cenerentola in Leipzig.
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